Here is the secret to your business success - a tool which is simple to use but effective in its delivery.

PDF-eXPLODE is a electronic document delivery tool that will at the very least save you postage on as many invoices, statements or documents you choose to process through its print process rather than directing the output in your application in the conventional way to your printer.

PDF-eXPLODE acts as a “software printer” and converts invoices, statements, letters and more from crystal reports, SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft Office into a secure PDF and then automatically emails them.

Yes – and so can a lot of accounting software. But what sets PDF-eXPLODE apart from those ‘features’ in your software is, that unlike your existing software :

     -       You do not have to generate these emails and attachments one at a time for each invoice in the print batch

    -         PDF-eXPLODE will combine similar destination attachments in the one print batch run and

    -          PDF-eXPLODE is capable of automating the process without intervention!

 And how does it save you money?                                                                                     

You can easily calculate the savings at around 60 cents for postage, pre-printed or plain paper and envelope for each invoice or statement sent plus the labor saving in terms of sorting, stuffing envelopes and mailing at the local PO. The more you use it the more you save. Add to this the benefit of:

-          Less paper handling

-          Improved cash flow with early delivery of invoices/statements to clients

-          Professional impact of automated delivery

-          Flexibility to work with other applications besides your accounting software

and you have a return on your investment in around three months (calculated on 100 invoices/statements per month)

 How does it work?                                                                                                                     

In your business application, you make a small change to the invoice or statement producing report to embed the client email address between 2 tags :

For example: <pdfexplode> customer@clientcompany.com </pdfexplode>

where the email address is sourced from the database. You can make the font very small and the same color as the document background so that it’s hidden to the naked eye.

Functioning as a windows printer, PDF-eXPLODE printer will “trap” the output created by your application when you select FILE / PRINT within your application, and redirect this output to the PDF-eXPLODE program.  It will then:

1. Create a Master PDF of the entire print batch
2. ‘Explode’ or burst the Master PDF into individual PDF files based on each page tag (s), sorting, collating and combining similar destination emails into a single PDF
3. Attach the exploded file and emails it with a custom pre-defined subject /message to the client
4. Save each exploded file to a nominated folder and write a log entry to record the sent email.

This process is graphically shown below:

 What are some additional uses and benefits?                                                                       

  *       Can be used with any business software (that it capable of customizing its reports) or word processors like MS Word

Page After Page, a laser printer service company use Crystal Reports through their MAS90 accounting software and quickly realized they could leverage the report writer to increase staff productivity. Page After Page was able to efficiently generate information-rich executive statements from a custom-built web-based service dispatch application (with a SQL Server back-end). But to distribute them, someone still had to generate corresponding mailing labels from MAS90 – not to mention print, collate, stuff, and stamp the mailings every month.

Page After Page found the solution in PDF-eXPLODE. This utility leverages Crystal’s data manipulation and formatting capabilities and its use of the standard windows printer system. Installed printer driver, PDF-eXPLODE seamlessly adds the ability to “or burst, a report into individual PDF attachments that are automatically e-mailed based on tags included on each page of the report.

fxBridge Technologies is a comprehensive dealing platform for Forex and CFD options and Spot Trading. They create thousands of statements for their customer accounts. When they decided to archive each statement as an individual file, they were facing thousands of dollars in potential programming effort. “By using your software, we were able to eliminate having to tie up valuable programmer resources. One person from our administrative staff was able to get the job done in one day” says James Friedman, Director of Marketing. This job is repeated every quarter and their archive run exceeds 3500 PDF client statement files. fxBridge Technologies use PDF-eXPLODE working in tandem with their MS Access software.

Sir John Deane's College and Carmel College have both recently commenced using PDF-eXPLODE for their Student reporting, they use Crystal Reports to extract data from their database.